Tabletop Strategies

Tabletop Strategies is a boutique communications and marketing firm specializing in digital content and campaigns to create a powerful impact. What differentiates Tabletop is our intentional strategies. We focus on the whole system, creating a holistic,...

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For some reason, Roald Dahl tarot cards aren’t a thing. We fixed that. 

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almost perfect. They missed the BFG, tho. 

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Jorge Ramos

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pushing boundaries since 1982. 

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Get well soon, Hillary!

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These are everything!

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Op-Ed: Abortion Access and Trans Health Care Bound Together in Texas

Lawmakers have used a federal anti-abortion law to try to deny trans people's access to health care, and advocates for both causes must fight back together.

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We all deserve the ability to make decisions that impact our own bodies. 

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“Worry less about what you want to be, and think more about what you want to do.” —President Obama giving advice to the White House interns

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I wish we all had as much courage to do what we want to do — to take it on our passions and change the world. 

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Watch: Hillary Clinton stood for women and called out Republican hypocrisy in one fell swoop.

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Like a boss

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We have to protect the one planet we’ve got while we still can. That’s why President Obama is talking to Alaskans this week about how we can work together to make America the global leader on climate change.

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He’s right on the money. We must do more!

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Secretary of Energy Ernie Moniz spent 40 years on the nuclear physics faculty at MIT. Watch him explain the science behind the Iran deal.

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We already reward people for being arrogant, aggressive and vitriolic with book deals and contracts for their own clothing lines and incessant news coverage.

Adam Lankford, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama

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A garage. A basement. A dorm room. A kitchen. Good ideas can come from anywhere. That’s why we’re taking steps to make it easier to start a business in America.

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Here’s hoping. At Tabletop Strategies, we believe in making the world a better place one client at a time. It starts with us. 

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If you agree it’s time to get $$ out of politics help us by donating what you can to this important film: http://bit.ly/1fTEeui. 

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Push to Scale Back Sentencing Laws Gains Momentum

After years of resistance, Congress seems poised to revise federal policy that has greatly expanded the number of Americans who are incarcerated.

#bigdeal #massincarceration #unjust #senate #congress

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Neil Young, Mark Ruffalo, Bernie Sanders, Noam Chomsky & many others agree on this one topic-do you? #EndCorruption http://thndr.it/1edUZ2F

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How The South Lost The War But Won The Narrative

I have a box in my office filled with hate. It contains bumper stickers, literature and t-shirts I collected while researching Confederates in the Attic, a book about Civil War memory in the South. “Coon-ard Lines: Boat Ticket to AFRICA,” reads one '90s-era item I picked up at a store selling rebel-themed souvenirs.

the fact that we’re having a conversation about the confederate flag and not about gun control continues to prove the NRA’s dominance and the fact that the South continues to control the narrative. Progressives can do better. Let’s remove the flag’s symbolism and push for comprehensive gun control laws across the country. Abolishing the flag and gun rights across the country won’t be easy, but killing innocent victims silently praying shouldn’t be either. 

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But really it only makes one thing clear: the only solution to the pointless and profoundly damaging marijuana prohibition in this country is a federal solution. As long as the federal government continues not only to outlaw marijuana, but to classify it as one of the most dangerous narcotics, anti-prohibition efforts in states are subject to the sort of capricious ruling issued in Colorado.

Andrew Rosenthal of the New York Times: http://nyti.ms/1GvBkV2

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Great news! The net neutrality rules you all fought so hard for (and won!) have gone into effect. The FCC’s Open Internet is Order is officially official.

Pop open a bottle of whatever you celebrate with, but don’t get toooo comfortable yet. In a bogus and sneaky move, some members of Congress are using a funding maneuver to prohibit the FCC from implementing its own net neutrality rules.

If you care about internet freedom and you have a spare minute, you can help make sure Congress doesn’t screw up this victory. Call up one of these key members of the House Appropriations Committee and and ask them to take out the anti–net neutrality language from the House Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2016, specifically sections 628, 629, and 630: 

Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL, who introduced the bill)

Rep. Henry Cuellar (R-TX, who’s advocating for the interests of the carriers)

Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY, who’s currently the best champion of changes to the bill that will preserve net neutrality)

More details: This is a general appropriations bill that funds independent agencies, including the FCC, through the coming year. Legislators on the Appropriations subcommittee are trying to thwart net neutrality by attaching specifically targeted riders to the bill. Considering that the FCC’s monumental ruling was the culmination of a remarkably open and participatory debate, these background moves are a particularly cynical circumvention of the democratic process and the will of the people.

It’s nasty business, and President Obama won’t be able to do anything about it except by vetoing the entire bill. Let’s not put him in this pickle. Call up and demand the fair and open internet you fought for (and, again, won!).

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Are you still paying attention to the drone war?

From the New York Times: Air Force officials said that this year they would lose more drone pilots, who are worn down by the unique stresses of their work, than they can train.

http://nyti.ms/1Ts1DCf